#story

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#devised #distilled #good #good story #story

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#after #discovered #energies #fire #god

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#dangerous #less #more #nuclear #nuclear weapons

There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean. ↗

— Marc Cherry

#certain #certain actors #done #guest #i

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#down the road #extreme #fan #guitar #guitar player

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#action movie #best #combines #i #i think

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. ↗

— Lee Child

#dawn #goes #invention #probably #recent

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. ↗

— Lee Child

#nothing #story #telling #wrong

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#against #blind #both #determined #historian